[sdiy] PIC's, UARTS, & MIDI

[Mikael Mørup]

Hi Dave

If you did not allredy find this site yourself :


http://www.audiomulch.com/midipic/

Then try to give it a look, there are lots of inf on MIDI
and PIC / Basic stamp processors.

It might be a bit old ?

Mikael



Citat D A F <polaris30 at ncx.com>:

> I'm just in the process of teaching myself assembler
> language, specifically as it pertains to the Microchip
> PIC microcontrollers, in the hopes of being able to do
> something synth-related with it.  One of the first things
> I would like to tackle would be a simple MIDI to CV
> converter.  The PIC I am using is a 16F877A.  It has a
> built-in UART.  I have seen some programs designed around
> other (simpler, UART-less) PICS for taking in MIDI data,
> but none for the 16F877A.  Since I tend to be more of an
> analog person and am new to microcontrollers in general,
> this is turning out to be a steep learning curve.  I
> bought the Myke Predko book, but sometimes it overwhelms
> me.. and I have the pdf files from the Microchip web
> site, but I am still not sure how to implement the UART -
> perhaps I missed something?  In any case, if anyone here
> knows of good resources of MIDI/UART/PIC related
> information or even examples of related assembler code,
> they could pass it along?
>
> thanks,
>
> Dave
>